What Intel’s Cash Means for Cloudera | Re/code

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"One important new benefit to Cloudera, he said, will be access to Intel’s network of partners and customers. “Intel wants to drive sales of servers and consumption of its silicon,” Olson said. “Having our Hadoop tuned to run with Intel Xeon chips helps give them a point of differentiating in the marketplace, and we’ll both benefit from the combination. We’ll be able to get in on deals that we wouldn’t have gotten into before.”

Cloudera will also have a close-up look into improvements on Intel’s future chip designs that others won’t, Olson said. “We are getting visibility into innovations at Intel that we had never seen before.”"

What Intel’s Cash Means for Cloudera | Re/code